{"587624":{"#nid":"587624","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fast Company Names Georgia Tech to List of Most Innovative Companies in Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFast Company magazine named the Georgia Institute of Technology to its annual \u0026ldquo;World\u0026rsquo;s Most Innovative Companies\u0026rdquo; list in the education sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are a top-ranked institution, but we are absolutely not the typical staid high-ranked educational institution,\u0026rdquo; said Georgia Tech Provost Rafael Bras, who holds sthe K. Harrison Brown Family Chair. \u0026ldquo;Just as we innovate in research, we do so in education. We take risks and explore new ideas \u0026mdash; that\u0026rsquo;s what innovation is all about.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECiting Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Online Master of Science\u0026nbsp;in Computer Science (OMSCS) degree, Fast Company ranked Georgia Tech number three, just behind Microsoft and Duolingo. Georgia Tech is the only university listed in the education sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re honored to be included in this list for offering a high-quality, online graduate degree in computing available at a fraction of the typical cost, thus making higher education both more affordable and more accessible to a much wider audience,\u0026rdquo; said Zvi Galil, the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing and professor. \u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s motto is \u0026#39;Progress and Service,\u0026#39; and the College of Computing simply followed those wise words in creating OMSCS.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech announced in January it was launching a similar online master\u0026rsquo;s program in analytics in August.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECiting Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s online Master\u0026rsquo;s Degree in Computer Science (OMSCS), Fast Company ranked Georgia Tech number three for innovation in the education sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fast Company magazine named the Georgia Institute of Technology to its annual \u201cWorld\u2019s Most Innovative Companies\u201d list in the education sector."}],"uid":"28797","created_gmt":"2017-02-20 15:24:25","changed_gmt":"2017-02-20 15:45:46","author":"Lance Wallace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"370171":{"id":"370171","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449245856","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:17:36","changed":"1475894344","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:04","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"74993","name":"15c6001-p6-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c6001-p6-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c6001-p6-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":419528,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/15c6001-p6-001.jpg?itok=cUiMOJuK"}},"587625":{"id":"587625","type":"image","title":"Fast Company World\u0027s Most Innovative Companies List","body":null,"created":"1487604924","gmt_created":"2017-02-20 15:35:24","changed":"1487604924","gmt_changed":"2017-02-20 15:35:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223947","name":"Screen Shot 2017-02-20 at 10.16.23 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-20%20at%2010.16.23%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-20%20at%2010.16.23%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":174829,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-20%20at%2010.16.23%20AM.png?itok=L3JUgBP0"}}},"media_ids":["370171","587625"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/company\/georgia-institute-of-technology","title":"Fast Company story"},{"url":"https:\/\/hypepotamus.com\/news\/georgia-tech-fast-company\/","title":"Hypepotamus story"},{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/online-masters-degrees\/online-master-science-analytics","title":"OMS in Analytics degree"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/","title":"OMS in Computer Science"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11979","name":"Fast Company"},{"id":"173521","name":"most innovative"},{"id":"121521","name":"OMSCS"},{"id":"173522","name":"Zvi Galili"},{"id":"10243","name":"rafael bras"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Elance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}